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Flores said his phone exploded with messages not just from people within the Cardinals, but from rival clubs as well.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

But a rival party, the hard-right anti-immigration Reform UK, rallies support on social media thanks to leader Nigel Farage with 1.5 million followers on TikTok, 2.3 million on Facebook and X.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

During the same period that Google and DeepMind were navigating their new relationship, a rival lab by the name of OpenAI had begun working on a large language model.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

YouTube in particular remains a formidable rival, representing about 14% of streaming-watch time by U.S. viewers on TVs, compared to Netflix’s 8% in May, according to Nielsen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

I should go to Orgoreyn, Karhide’s neighbor and rival.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Rangers' reward for knocking out Premier Sports Cup holders St Mirren is a mouth-watering quarter-final against Old Firm rivals Celtic.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

German automakers are ramping up cost-cutting measures in response to a sluggish European market, overcapacity in the EV sector, and the rising strength of Chinese rivals.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

Behind the scenes, the crosstown rivals are clashing as each company jockeys for tailored tariffs and policies while claiming to be the most American automaker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

The company’s newest Gemini 3 model swept industry benchmarks, beating out rivals OpenAI and Anthropic in performance after getting a late start to the large-language-model race.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

Companies needed to be defended against lawsuits from rivals.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

When your side scored, it was like the gift of life itself — I’ve never been in a louder environment than when Mexico scored against England, a roar that rivaled a jet engine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Osgood’s popularity was rivaled only by ABC Radio personality Paul Harvey.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

The extent to which he has reshaped U.S. politics and society is rivaled by few of his predecessors; presidents such as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

One of the industry’s biggest companies gave most of its very young patients an amount of therapy that rivaled a typical adult workweek.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

It was a much better education than Pong had gotten at the prison and even rivaled some of the private schools in Chattana.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

Scientists believe it rivalled the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex in size, measuring around 40 feet long with a 20-inch sword-like crest on its head.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

But the groundswell of support for the league is increasingly being rivalled by critical voices.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025

When McCallum arrived in London in 1966, his airport reception from ranks of screaming girls rivalled that of The Beatles.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2023

At the height of her fame in the 1950s and 1960s, Lollobrigida, who was known simply as "La Lollo," was an internationally recognised epitome of Italian post-war cinema, rivalled only by Sophia Loren.

From Reuters ● Jan. 16, 2023

Some were riding to fairs as great as that of Troyes, others to universities which rivalled Paris, where there were twenty thousand scholars whose ranks eventually provided seven popes.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Anthropic's Claude chatbot is among the most popular, rivaling ChatGPT and Gemini.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

A new wave of wealth from the AI industry results in rents in San Francisco that average $5,500 a month, rivaling New York prices and leaving even well-paid newcomers scrambling for a place to live.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Altman ran the venture firm Y Combinator before becoming OpenAI CEO and used that role to build a personal investment portfolio totaling hundreds of startups, a scale rivaling large venture firms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

The bank tracked that metric for roughly 45 developed and emerging economies, and found 27 saw a median March jump of 5.5%, rivaling what was seen after Russia invaded Ukraine in March 2022.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 2026

Pushing himself off the ground, Sheed found himself among a gang of Clock Watchers rivaling the library gathering.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

"In the long run, it may well be competing to become the container handling hub in the entire Indo-Pacific region," Joshi said, rivalling Singapore and Malaysia's Port Klang.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

It encompasses the company's AI assistant and family of models, rivalling OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

After years of temporary pop-up events, streaming giant Netflix will make its first foray into the theme park space this week, rivalling entertainment giants Disney and Universal Studios.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2025

Expedition 33 has also been widely praised for its production values - rivalling those of games worked on by hundreds, even thousands of staff.

From BBC ● May 3, 2025

What a splendid harbour—ships of all nations here; what a romantic city as seen from the sea, and the surroundings how romantic, rivalling even Edinburgh itself in beauty!

From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables